BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION OF SAN JUAN HERPETOFAUNA PROJECT

JUAN CARLOS ACOSTA; GRACIELA BLANCO; LASPIUR ALEJANDRO; VILLAVICENCIO HECTOR JOSÉ; VERONICA BLANCO; ANA VICTORICA; CASTRO SUSANA; GABRIEL CASTILLO; RODRIGO NIEVA; CORDOBA MARIELA; ASTUDILLO VANESA; EZEQUIEL SALOMON; LIA PIAGGIO; FAVA GUSTAVO

Congreso; CUYO BIOLOGY SOCIETY; 2010

Biodiversity conservation is a challenge and firstly requires obtaineddata as important information that will permit update faunalcategorization and species monitoring to elaborate guidelines managementand conservation as the future goal. The objective of thiswork was to obtain preliminary basic information about biodiversityand biology of herpetofauna from San Juan Province (Argentina)inside of the integral Grant Project (JCA-CICITCA-UNSJ-E831),important aspects to make comparative studies, conservation guidelinesand sustainable management. Basic data regard to biology,taxonomy and biogeography were obtained for species that couldto present problematic situations from the point view of conservation.In order to describe new species, evaluate the species compositionassemblages, patterns of distribution, biological parameters;different environments were surveyed (Monte, Chaco, Altoandinaand Puna). The results contribute for biodiversity conservation ofthese organisms groups that are normally undervalued and ignored.Through surveys of specific richness, management of biogeographicinformation associated with scientific collections could unify criteriafor the investigation and management of diversity in regionalscale, always with finality to contribute to the policy and programfor conservation of the natural resources in Argentina.